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Any suggestions where I might get a good deal on physics books? Specifically I''m looking for a copy of Kleppner''s Mechanics and Landau Lifhsitz Fluid Dynamics. I''ve tried half.com and powels.com (both excellent by the way) and they are still a bit pricey for an undergrad :) So I am just wondering if anyone knows of a good source out there of which I am unaware?

Steve Kanim, a professor and SPS advisor at New Mexico State, says that you can get UG books about half price from Amazon UK as compared to Amazon US...I don''t know the details but but I know that he has looked into this quite a bit and might have other hints...Gary

NSF Program Director
(on assignment from the AIP and the Society of Physics Students to serve as the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program Director at the National Science Foundation)

The amazon.co.uk trick sometimes works. I remember seeing somewhere that Hassani's Mathematical Physics was much cheaper in the UK (costing about ~$40 new if I remember correctly), but they must have fixed the loophole, 'cause it's now about the same price as it is on American Amazon. I just checked Marion and Thornton on both sites and the amazon.co.uk version is about half the amazon.com's price. I've also heard about slight differences in international versions of texts, though, so you might want to be careful if the books aren't for self-study (although I haven't seen it first hand, so it may just be FUD).